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Settlement of Litigation On Friday the Government of Alberta and ENMAX announced that they have settled the Alberta Power Purchase Arrangement (PPA) litigation that was commenced by the province in 2016 against ENMAX and certain other buyers under Alberta’s PPAs. ENMAX was the last of these buyers to settle its PPA litigation with Alberta. AlbertaPowerMarket.com… Read More

Importance of the LTP The Alberta Electricity System Operator (AESO) recently released its 2017 Long-term Transmission Plan (LTP) – a forecast by the AESO of the new transmission development that it currently expects will occur in the province. The LTP is very important for power project developers because it helps guide them to where there… Read More

The Sundance generating station (Sundance) is the largest coal-fired generating facility in Alberta. It is located about 70 kilometres west of the City of Edmonton, and has a generating capacity of 1,861 MW – down by about 280 MW after the January 1st retirement of one of its coal units. It is also the oldest… Read More

Albertans will go to the polls on a date between March 1 and May 31, 2019 according to its fixed-election-date legislation. But, already, AlbertaPowerMarket.com is seeing articles in newspapers, debates on social media, questions being asked in the Alberta Legislature and our industrial clients ask us about the rising price of electricity in Alberta. This… Read More

A few weeks ago we told you about capacity market design in Alberta, and the debate going on over the length of the delivery period that will apply in the capacity market for new facilities. Yesterday the AESO issued SAM 3.0. It describes the provisional recommendations of the 5 stakeholder working groups struck by the AESO… Read More

We will know shortly which renewable power projects were successful in Alberta’s REP Round 1 procurement for 400 MW of new renewable power. REP stands for the Renewable Electricity Program. This program, administered by the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO), is intended to encourage the development of 5000 MW of new renewable electricity generation capacity… Read More

We are going to know soon what the new capacity market for electricity will look like in Alberta. The capacity market design work, led by the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO), started in January. Since then the AESO has issued a series of straw proposals on various design issues (each called a “Straw Alberta Market”… Read More

Distributed Generation (DG) refers to smaller-sized generation projects (generally less than 20MW) that are directly connected to the lower voltage local electricity distribution systems that service consumers. DG is distinguishable from much larger-sized generation projects that are directly connected to higher voltage transmission lines that first transmit the power longer distances, and deliver it to… Read More

We generally do not write about court cases here at AlbertaPowerMarket.com. However, the decision earlier this month of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench in Enmax PPA Management Inc. v. Balancing Pool (the “Decision”), about the Battle River PPA, caught our eye. Not because the Decision created any interesting new law – the judge simply… Read More

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